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Tibetan vs Kashmiri


Kashmiri vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
India, Pakistan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
India, Pakistan  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
-  

Interesting Facts
  • Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
  • Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
  
  • Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
  • Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Hindi and Urdu Languages  

Derived From
-  
Sanskrit Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Kashmiri-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
44  
24

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
17  
14

How Many Consonants
30  
20
27  
17

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Assalām ‘alaikum  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
سہا مسا  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Hach t'ochoktiya  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
Hach ch'i  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
مهربانی کر  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
Khuda hāfiz  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
be chus che seth mohabat karaan  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Kashtawari  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
6,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Poguli  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Pogul and Paristan valleys  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
6,100,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Rambani  

Where They Speak
China  
India  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
5,600,000.00  
36

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
4  
4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
5.60 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
5.42 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
5.00 million  
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
कॉशुर / كٲشُر  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur  

French Name
tibétain  
kashmiri  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Kaschmiri  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[kəːʃur]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Kashmiris or koshur  

History

Origin
c. 650  
12th Century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
-  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Kashmiri  

Language Position
29  
27
23  
21

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Indian Signing System (ISS)  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
ks  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
kas  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
kas  

ISO 639 3
bod  
kas  

ISO 639 6
bod  
kas  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
kash1277  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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Tibetan and Kashmiri Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Kashmiri language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Kashmiri language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Kashmiri language states that this language originated in 12th Century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Tibetan and Kashmiri Language History.

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Tibetan and Kashmiri Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Kashmiri greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Kashmiri language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Kashmiri word for "Thank You" is शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Kashmiri Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Kashmiri Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Kashmiri difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Kashmiri Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Kashmiri are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Kashmiri, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Kashmiri time required is 44 weeks.

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